Research Fellow

Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range £35,880 to £45,163 with potential progression once in post to £47,874

Contract Type: Fixed Term contract up to October 2027

Background

To create and contribute to the creation of knowledge by undertaking a specified range of activities within an established research programme and/or specific research project.

Role Summary

A fixed-term Postdoctoral Research Fellow position is available within the group of Dr Yongjing Wang in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering at the University of Birmingham to work on the £1.5M EPSRC project RoboTriage: https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/Z534080/1.

• Work within specified research grants and projects and contribute to writing bids 
• Operate within area of specialism
• Analyse and interpret research findings and results 
• Contribute to generating funding 
• Contribute to licensing or spin out deals with demonstrated commercial success (such as revenues, asset or company sales, IP generated) and/or public understanding of the discipline or similar

Main Duties

The responsibilities may include some but not all of the responsibilities outlined below.

• Contribute to enterprise, business development and/or public engagement activities of manifest benefit to the College and the University, often under supervision of a project leader
• Generate high-quality research outputs 
• Mentor and lead junior researchers (New PhDs, MEng and BEng students)
• Develop research objectives and proposals for own or joint research, with assistance of a mentor if required
• Contribute to writing bids for research funding
• Analyse and interpret data
• Apply knowledge in a way which develops new intellectual understanding
• Disseminate research findings for publication, research seminars etc
• Supervise students on research related work and provide guidance to PhD students where appropriate to the discipline
• Contribute to developing new models, techniques and methods 
• Undertake management/administration arising from research
• Contribute to Departmental/School research-related activities and research-related administration
• Promotes equality and values diversity acting as a role model and fostering an inclusive working culture.

Person Specification

• First degree in science or engineering discipline relevant to the project or equivalent experience
• Hold, or be close to completion of, a PhD in area relevant to the project
• Interdisciplinary research experience linked to understanding complex social, economic and technical challenges 
• High level analytical capability
• Ability to communicate complex information clearly
• Experienced in public engagement and workshop organisation 
• Track record of academic publications, proven delivery of reports and papers that are recognised within the field of industrial robotics or mechatronic systems
• Proven ability to work both under guidance as part of a team, but also independently

Informal enquiries can be made to Yongjing Wang, email: y.wang@bham.ac.uk 

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